Alberto Moravia.

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. Image File history File links MoraviaIT.jpg‎ Il Modulo encyclopedia, 1976 Images of uncertain copyright status ^ 17 U.S.C. §104A File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links MoraviaIT.jpg‎ Il Modulo encyclopedia, 1976 Images of uncertain copyright status ^ 17 U.S.C. §104A File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings and essence of their own lives. ...

He is best known for his anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci; other novels of his translated to the cinema are Il Disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt) filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt) (1963), and La Ciociara filmed by Vittorio de Sica as Two Women (1960). The Conformist (Il conformista) is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951), which details the life and desire for normality of a government official during Italys fascist period. ... The Conformist (Italian: Il Conformista) is a political film released in 1970 and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. ... Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director. ... Jean-Luc Godard (French IPA: ) (born 3 December 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the... Contempt (original French title Le Mépris, Italian title Il Disprezzo) is a film released in 1963, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. ... Two Women (also known as La Ciociara) is a 1960 Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. ... Vittorio De Sica (July 7, 1901 - November 13, 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Biography

Early years

Alberto Pincherle (the pen-name "Moravia" is the surname of his maternal grandfather) was born on Via Sgambati in Rome, Italy, to a wealthy middle-class family. His Jewish father, Carlo, was an architect and a painter. His Catholic mother, Teresa Iginia de Marsanich, was from Ancona, but of Dalmatian origin. A pen name, nom de plume, or nom de guerre, is a pseudonym adopted by an author for various reasons. ... Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101,909 (2005). ... Dalmatia, highlighted, on a map of Croatia. ...

Moravia did not finish conventional schooling because, at the age of nine, he contracted tuberculosis of the bone that confined him to bed for five years. He spent three years at home, and two in a sanatorium at Cortina d'Ampezzo, in northeastern Italy. Moravia was an intelligent boy and devoted himself to reading books: some of his favourite authors included Dostoevsky, Joyce, Ariosto, Goldoni, Shakespeare, Molière, Mallarmé. He learned French and German, and wrote poems in both languages. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Cortina dAmpezzo is a town and municipality in the province of Belluno, Veneto, northern Italy. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... This article is about the writer and poet. ... Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 _ July 6, 1533) was a Ferrarese poet, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), Orlando Enraged. He was born at Reggio, in Hungary in 1518, and wished Aniosto to accompany him. ... Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Italian playwright, whom critics today rank among the European theatres greatest authors. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Molière, engraved on the frontispiece to his Works. ... Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Édouard Manet. ...

In 1925 he left the sanatorium and moved to Brixen, where he wrote his first novel, Gli Indifferenti (Time of Indifference), published in 1929. The novel is a realistic analysis of the moral decadence of a middle-class mother and two of her children. In 1927, Moravia met Corrado Alvaro and Massimo Bontempelli, and started his career as a journalist with the magazine 900, which published his first short stories, including "La cortigiana stanca" (in French as "Lassitude de courtisane", 1927), "Delitto al circolo del tennis" (1928), "Il ladro curioso" ("The Curious Thief") and "Apparizione" ("Apparition") (both 1929). Brixen (Italian: Bressanone; German: Brixen; Ladin: Porsenù or Persenon; Latin: Brixino; also known as Pressena (827 AD), Prichsna, Brixina) is a town in the Province of Bolzano in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corrado Alvaro in the 1920s Corrado Alvaro (born 15 April 1895 in San Luca, died 11 June 1956 in Rome) was a prolific Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. ... Massimo Bontempelli (May 12, 1878 – July 21, 1960) was an Italian poet, playwright, and novelist. ...

Gli indifferenti and Fascist ostracism

In 1929, he published the novel Gli indifferenti, at his own expense of 5,000 Italian lira. Literary critics welcomed the novel as a noteworthy example of contemporary Italian narrative fiction. ^{[citation needed]} The next year, he started collaborating with the newspaper La Stampa, then edited by author Curzio Malaparte. In 1933, together with Mario Pannunzio, he founded the literary review magazines Caratteri ("Characters") and Oggi ("Today"), and started writing for the ewspaper, La Gazzetta del Popolo. ISO 4217 Code ITL User(s) Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, but not Campione dItalia Inflation 2. ... La Stampa is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers, published in Turin and distributed in Italy and in other nations in Europe. ... Curzio Malaparte Curzio Malaparte (June 9, 1898 - July 19, 1957), born as Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat. ...

The years leading to World War II were problematic;the Fascist regime seized La mascherata ("Masquerade") (1941), prohibited reviews of Le ambizioni sbagliate (1935), and banned publication of Agostino (Two Adolescents) (1941). In 1935 he travelled to the United States to give a lecture series on Italian literature. Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the interests of the state. ... Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly by citizens of Italy. ...

Oction titled L'imbroglio ("The Cheat") published by Bompiani in 1937. To avoid Fascist censorship he wrote mainly in the surrealist and allegoric genres, among the works is Il sogno del pigro ("The Dream of the Lazy"), however, the Fascist seizing of the second edition of La mascherata, in 1941, thereafter forced him to write under a pseudonym. That same year, he married the novelist Elsa Morante, whom he had met in 1936; they lived in Capri, where he wrote Agostino. Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ... A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Elsa Morante (August 18, 1918 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La Storia (History). ... For other uses, see Capri (disambiguation). ...

After the Armistice of 8 September 1943, Moravia and Morante took refuge in Fondi, on the border of Ciociaria; the experience inspired La ciociara ("The Woman of Ciociara") (1958). The Armistice with Italy is an armistice that occurred on September 8, 1943, during World War II. It was signed by Italy and the Allied armed forces, who were occupying the southern half of the country at the time. ... Fondi is a small town in Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples. ... Ciociaria (IPA: []) is the name of a traditional region of Central Italy comprising approximately the northern half of the Province of Frosinone (the southwestern part of the Lazio region of Italy). ... Two Women (also known as La Ciociara) is a 1960 Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. ...

Return to Rome and national popularity

In May of 1944, after the liberation of Rome, Alberto Moravia returned and began collaborating with Corrado Alvaro, writing for important newspapers such as Il Mondo ("The World")and Il Corriere della Sera (The Courier of the Evening); the latter published his writing until his death. Corriere della Sera is an Italian newspaper printed in Milan. ...

At war's end, his popularity steadily increased, with works such as La Romana (The Woman of Rome) (1947), La disubbidienza (Disobedience) (1948), L'amore coniugale e altri racconti ("Conjugal Love and other stories") (1949) and Il conformista ("The Conformist") (1951). In 1952 he won the Premio Strega for I racconti, and his novels began to be translated abroad. That same year "La provinciale" was cinematically adapted by Mario Soldati; in 1954 Luigi Zampa directed La romana, and in 1955 Gianni Franciolini directed I racconti romani ("The Roman Stories") (1954) a short collection that won the Marzotto Award. In 1953, Moravia founded the literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti ("New Arguments"), which featured Pier Paolo Pasolini among its editors. Amici della Domenica The Strega Prize (Premio Strega) has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction by an Italian author and first published between 1 May of the previous year and 30 April. ... Mario Soldati (Turin, November 11, 1906 - Tellaro, June 19, 1999) was an Italian journalist, film director, also novel writer. ... Luigi Zampa (Rome, January 2, 1905 – Rome, August 16, 1991) was an Italian film-maker. ... Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ...

In the 1950s, he wrote prefaces to works such as Belli's 100 Sonnets, Brancati's Paolo il caldo and Stendhal's Roman Walks. From 1957 onwards, he also reviewed and criticised cinema for the weekly magazine L'Espresso; it is collected in the volume Al cinema ("To the Cinema") (1975). Monument to Belli in the popular quarter of Trastevere, in Rome. ... Stendhal. ... Lespresso is an Italian magazine. ...

La noia and later life

In 1960, he published one of his most famous novels, La noia (The Empty Canvas), the story of the troubled sexual relationship between a young, rich painter striving to find sense in his life and an easygoing girl, in Rome. It won the Viareggio Prize and was filmed by Damiano Damiani in 1962. An adaptation of the book is the basis of Cedric Kahn's the film L'ennui ("The Ennui") (1998). The Viareggio Literary Prize is a prestigious Italian literary award, started in 1930, and is named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio. ... Damiano Damiani (Pasiano di Pordenone, July 23, 1922) an Italian screenwriter and film director. ...

In 1960, Vittorio De Sica cinematically adapted La ciociara with Sophia Loren; Jean-Luc Godard filmed Il disprezzo (Contempt) (1963); and Francesco Maselli filmed Gli indifferenti (1964). Vittorio De Sica (July 7, 1901 - November 13, 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor. ... Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning actress, widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress. ... Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli (December 9, 1930 in Rome ) is an award winning Italian film director and screenwriter. ...

In 1962 Moravia and Elsa Morante parted; he went to live with the young writer Dacia Maraini. Increasingly, he concentrated on theatre; in 1966, he and Maraini and Enzo Siciliano founded the company called "Il Porcospino", which staged works by Moravia, Maraini, Carlo Emilio Gadda, and others. Dacia Maraini (Fiesole, Italy November 13, 1936 - ) is an Italian writer. ... Enzo Siciliano (born in Rome, May 27, 1934 – died June 9, 2006) was an Italian writer. ... Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century. ...

In 1967 Moravia visited China, Japan, and Korea. In 1971 he published the novel Io e lui (["I and He"]The Two of Us) about a screenwriter and his independent penis and the situations to which he thrusts them, and the essay Poesia e romanzo ("Poetry and Novel"). In 1972 he went to Africa, which inspired his work A quale tribù appartieni? ("Which Tribe Do You Belong To?"), published in the same year. His 1982 trip to Japan, including a visit to Hiroshima, inspired series of articles for L'espresso magazine about the atomic bomb. The same theme is in the novel L'uomo che guarda ("The Man Who Looks") (1985) and the essay L'inverno nucleare ("The Nuclear Winter") including interviews with some contemporary principal scientists and politicians. This article is about the Korean peninsula and civilization. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... For other uses, see Hiroshima (disambiguation). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

The short story collection, La cosa e altri racconti ("The Thing and other stories"), was dedicated to Carmen Llera, his new companion (forty-five years his junior), whom he married in 1986. In 1984 he was elected to the European Parliament as member from the Italian Communist Party. His experiences at Strasbourg, which ended in 1988, are told in Il diario europeo ("The European Diary"). In 1985 he won the title of "European Personality". This article is about the year. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP) Alejo Vidal-Quadras (EPP) Gérard Onesta (Greens – EFA) Edward McMillan-Scott (ED) Mario Mauro (EPP) Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (PES) Luigi Cocilovo (ALDE) Mechtild... The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... For other uses, see Strasburg. ...

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Themes and literary style

Moral aridity, the hypocrisy of contemporary life, and the substantial incapability of people finding happiness in traditional ways such as love and marriage are the regnant themes in the works of Alberto Moravia. Usually, these conditions are pathologically typical of middle-class life; marriage, in particular, is the target of works such as Disobedience and L'amore coniugale ("The Conjugal Love") (1949). Alienation is the theme in works such as Il disprezzo ("Contempt" or "A Ghost at Noon") (1954) and La noia ("The Empty Canvas"), from the 1950s, despite observation from a rational-realistic perspective. Political themes are often present: an example is La Romana ("The Woman of Rome")(1947), the story of a prostitute entangled with the Fascist regime and with a network of conspirators. The extreme sexual realism in La noia ("The Empty Canvas") (1960), introduced the psychologically experimental works of the 1970s.

Moravia's writing style was highly regarded for being extremely stark and unadorned, characterised by very elementary, common words within an elaborate syntax. A complex mood is establish by mixing a proposition constituting the description of a single psychological observation mixed with another such proposition. In the later novels, the inner monologue is prominent.

Bibliography

• "La cortigiana stanca" (1927)
• Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference, 1929)
• Le ambizioni sbagliate (1935)
• La bella vita (1935)
• L'imbroglio (1937, novellas)
• I sogni del pigro (1940)
• La mascherata (1941)
• La cetonia (1943)
• L'amante infelice (1943)
• Agostino (Two Adolescents, 1944)
• L'epidemia (1944, short story collection)
• La romana (The Woman of Rome, 1947)
• La disubbidienza (Disobedience, 1947)
• L'amore coniugale (1947, short story collection)
• Il conformista (The Conformist, 1947)
• L'amore coniugale (1949)
• Racconti romani (Roman Tales, 1954)
• Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt, 1954)
• La ciociara (Two Women, 1957)
• Nuovi racconti romani (1959)
• La noia (The Empty Canvas, 1960)
• L'automa (The Fetish, 1962, collection of short stories)
• L'uomo come fine (1963, essay)
• L'attenzione (1965)
• La vita è gioco (1969)
• Il paradiso (1970)
• Io e lui (Him and Me, 1971)
• A quale tribù appartieni (1972)
• Un'altra vita (1973)
• Al cinema (1975, essays)
• Boh (1976)
• Una vita interiore (1978)
• Impegno controvoglia (1980)
• La cosa e altri racconti (1983, short story collection)
• L'uomo che guarda (1985)
• L'inverno nucleare (1986, essays and interviews)
• La villa del venerdì e altri racconti (1990)

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External links

• The Paris Review Interview

• Alberto Moravia biography